elkhornsun Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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When I get back to the office I copy all my files on to a NAS drive that has 4 hard drives. Only if 2 or more drives crash will I lose any data. It has a 1GB port so it is fast to upload the data to it.
On my workstation I have three hard drives and one is for the operating system and software applications and the other two drives are configured as RAID1 so all the data copies to drive A is automatically copies to drive B as well. Only a fire that burns down the place is going to result in lost data.
I keep the original RAW files on the NAS until I have delivered all files and the album to the client. I work with the RAW files on the computer's internal drives and cull them down while sorting them as to getting ready, ceremony, family and group shots, reception, first dances, venue and detail shots. I can then batch process the images from these folders after renaming them. That way I have a G001 to G100 for example, and the B&G do not see any gaps in the file numbering. It also makes for shorter filenames when communicating with the couple.
My completed files are backed up onto the NAS so I have two RAID protected sets of files. Other than a fire there is no way anything can be lost, and that includes my time while working on the files to provide a deliverable to a client.
My QNAP NAS cost me $600 plus another $100 per hard drive. The workstation RAID was built into the motherboard as is often the case with such machines (have it on my Lenovo P700 tower and had it on my HP tower and on my Mac Pro Quadstation) so the cost was the two $100 drives.
I would feel stupid and incompetent and unprofessional if I lost data for a client and the cost to prevent this from happening is trivial in the overall scheme of things.
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